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The Slave
Isaac Bashevis Singer | Cecil Hemley

The Slave

Mar 08, 1973
9780224008396
| Hardcover
320 pages
Dewey * Fic 568 Singer
LC Classification Adult

Genre

  • Adult / Literature / Fiction / Historical

Subject

  • 600 JEWISH COMMUNITY: SOCIETY & ARTS / SOCIETY / SOCIAL BEHAVIOR & INSTITUTIONS /

Plot

Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

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